Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-11-01
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1887.
The Anarchists, Case.

The Anarchists' Case.
The duty Of calling for the she'd
ding Of human blood is not an agree
able one. 1t is one men would rather
leave undone than do. Outside OF
tho judge and jury trying any ordi'
nary case, the rest Of mankind pre-
far to take no. hand, and have no
voice in taking the life Of q fellow
being. But case has arisen where
Il il tho duty Of every manwho feels
ono emotion of patriotic inspiration
In his heart, to cry aloud for the due
srecution of the law. The case is
that of the. Anarchists implicated in
Tho Chicago tragedy. These men
must, each and every one OF them,
suffer, the penalty justly due their
dseds. This necessity is laid upon
Ill having jurisdiction in the matter,
and all officials charged With the
execution Of the laws, by reason OF
Tho attitude of these lawless men (which
a4titude led naturally up to the terri
he crime which their DEATH is to ex-
piste. That attitude was one Of def
ance of all law, Of all courts, Of all off,
GERS of the law. They proclaimed
them selves as determined to destroy
laws, courts and officers Of all grades
and ranks. Laws they pro-
clai m as denominations which they
cannot endure. The rights OF
courts to try them they deny. n
At the root of all material progress
lies the right of property. This right
they deny. The earnings Of toll, the
savings OF frugality and the accumula-
tons based on the industry and econ
omy of lifetime are all common
things in their eyes. Each hungry
idler, each spendthrift loafer, each
rsscally villain in the land
has as much right! to the
home Of the industrious, to the
wage Of the hard toiler, to the savings
Of the provident, to the gains OF hon
eety, as the builder OF the home has,
as the Garner of the wages has. as the
saver Of the provision for old age
claims.
It is an openly professed doctrine OF
these men that it is their right to have
the crops they neither sowed nor
reaped; the garment they neither
spun, wove nor made; the shelter OF
the roof they had no hand in spread
ing. They go further, and claim a
right to destroy the fruits of hus-
bandry, the stately piles upreared
by honest toll and all the results Of
civilization, if their right to share
in the benefits OF these things be
denied. Nor do they stop there. They
proclaim aloud their intention to take
the life of any man who opposes their
will in these respects. Advancing
along the same dangerous lines of
reasoning, they call on all men in
their own penniless plight, all men OF
their own idle habits, to aid them in
their nefarious designs, to join them in
these bloody projects. Men in places
Of power are asked to lend them the
aid of their official power, and, failing
to grant this, the lives of those refus-
ing are declared forfeit to the pistol,
dagger, or poisoned cup of any idle
Anarchist who can reach the person
OF any such victim.
The world cries aloud Tor the blood
Of those doomed men at Chicago,
again, because Of the loud demands of
their fellows who still breathe the
air of freedom that those in the tolls
of the law shall not suffer the
penalty justly their due. An at
tempt is made by the friends
OF these red-handed murderers, that
the law shall not take its course; and
this demand is coupled with direct
threats If the will of this bloody gang
is not lot have its way. No such de-
mand should for one moment cause
the least ripple in the onward course of
affairs. There should be no stay be-
yond those naturally growing out Of
legal rights; but while ali due pro-
cesses of law are observed the fate Of
these men should be swift as it is ter
riblo. Cranky demagogues like But
Ter and Pryor, and dreamy impracti.
calls like Felix Adler, should all be
treated with utter inattention
while the law these men
despised cuts short their noxious
existence, in order I'd protect the prop
srty they would plunder and the
lives they threaten. +
And there will be no strike. Re-
epoctxble lsborers and mechanics who